Bargain Thread 2011 Edition

Cobra · 2011-08-26T15:01:50.000Z

Creole Ned:

The Steam Daily Deal for August 26 is Garshasp: The Monster Slayer for $3.33 (67% off). Garshasp slays monsters, with colons!

Everyone should buy Garshasp because it’s literally made by two Prince of Persia fans who spend their free time developing the game… in IRAN! Plus it’s actually a pretty decent game.

DoomMunky · 2011-08-26T15:24:47.000Z

Gus_Smedstad:

Thanks for the heads up. Purchased.

Also, buying this leads you to a download page, which from what I’ve read is a bad idea. At least one user review complained that Steam doesn’t recognize the download. The correct thing to do, once purchased, is to go to your “digital items” page, copy the key, and then activate it on Steam. This worked for me (well, in 6-8 hours it will).

Goddammit! Now I have to play this all weekend…

Marcus · 2011-08-26T15:42:02.000Z

Cobra:

Plus it’s actually a pretty decent game.

No it really really isn’t.

malkav11 · 2011-08-26T16:08:26.000Z

It’s decent. Shoestring budget, but decent. And it’s not like there’s a lot of God of War clones on PC.

Falcon554 · 2011-08-26T16:32:19.000Z

Orderd Deus Ex on Amazon the damn screen got stuck on the payment part. Now it looks like i have to oreders lol what a mess.

Cormac · 2011-08-26T16:39:30.000Z

Witcher 2 for 14 Pounds from Direct2Drive. Seems like a pretty good deal!

flyinj · 2011-08-26T16:39:46.000Z

Falcon554:

Orderd Deus Ex on Amazon the damn screen got stuck on the payment part. Now it looks like i have to oreders lol what a mess.

Your post was even more of a mess.

Zer0_2121 · 2011-08-26T16:55:43.000Z

LeSquide:

If anyone wants a copy of Borderlands, I still have an un-owned copy of the Game of the Year edition waiting to be gifted from an unfinished 4pack.

If the Borderlands GOTY is still available I would love to give it a try! Please help a poor old newbie to the boards out :)

Jamie_Madigan · 2011-08-26T18:37:11.000Z

So I just purchased Deus Ex thru Amazon (thanks Telefrog!), but is there a way I can get a product key and just download it straight through Steam now? I’d rather not mess with another digital distribution setup.

EDIT: Derp, derp, I figured it out. Just go to your Library in Steam, Click “Add a Game…” and enter the product key that Amazon includes with your receipt. Nothing to see here, move along.

Moggraider · 2011-08-26T20:40:12.000Z

intruder:

I think he means big-budget games which are rather rare so far on the daily deals.

I have no problems with that and already picked up quite a few of those deals so far.
Then again I’m for anything that helps indies / smaller games get some exposure as I’m tired of a lot of the big budget games.

I like indie games getting exposure, but now that I am in the habit of buying big budget games for five to ten dollars it seems absurd to pay the same amount for an indie game. But that’s me.

I wish they would run two deals of the day, one indie and one old big budget games. At this point I will probably stop checking until the big sales.

Falcon554 · 2011-08-27T00:01:22.000Z

Well the order went thru and now I have 2 copies of DX. Not sure if they can refund one of them, if they cant, can I sell the one extra key?

Jake_Plane · 2011-08-27T03:58:12.000Z

RPG sale at Direct2Drive. Dragon Age II for $11.99 and others

TimJames · 2011-08-27T05:24:27.000Z

Jake Plane:

RPG sale at Direct2Drive. Dragon Age II for $11.99 and others

That’ll do it for me. I’m going to try to squeeze it in before Skyrim along with a couple other RPGs I have scheduled.

Telefrog · 2011-08-27T05:37:59.000Z

Falcon554:

Well the order went thru and now I have 2 copies of DX. Not sure if they can refund one of them, if they cant, can I sell the one extra key?

Sure, as long as you didn’t enable it in Steam. Sell it to someone and they can just plug it in themselves.

TimJames · 2011-08-27T05:56:25.000Z

Jake Plane:

RPG sale at Direct2Drive. Dragon Age II for $11.99 and others

It looks like they force you to use their stupid GameSpy Comrade download tool with this. Oh well, more junk for my new computer.

vyshka · 2011-08-27T10:08:51.000Z

Looks like the Cossacks series has been added to the Steam catalog

BrianRubin · 2011-08-27T14:00:11.000Z

vyshka:

Looks like the Cossacks series has been added to the Steam catalog

Yay!! Been meaning to pick those up.

AlanSmithee · 2011-08-27T14:49:54.000Z

Falcon554:

Well the order went thru and now I have 2 copies of DX. Not sure if they can refund one of them, if they cant, can I sell the one extra key?

I’ll buy it off you if you wish.

malkav11 · 2011-08-27T19:18:35.000Z

The Steam daily deal is Metro 2033 for $5. I’m not sure if that’s a new low price for it or not, but it’s a deeply atmospheric, very Russian post-apocalyptic experience that I would heartily recommend. $5 is a steal. (It also looks really good if you’ve got the computer to handle the highest settings, but that means a DX11 card and a fairly beefy CPU, etc.) The closest comparison would probably be Stalker, but people who go in expecting that series’ open-ended roaming will be disappointed as Metro 2033 is a fairly tightly linear game.

Canuck · 2011-08-28T06:18:36.000Z

Ender:

Civ 5 for 11 bucks at Gamersgate. I’ll finally bite at that price

I have an account at Gamersgate.com but it’s $16.98. How do I go about getting it from Gamersgate.co.uk? It won’t let me sign in with my .com account.